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Date
- 6 November 2024
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- 2 minutes
In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, the RCA has announced the second year of GREAT Scholarships. For 2025/26 we are offering four scholarships to students from France, India, Italy and Pakistan.
Key details
Date
- 6 November 2024
Read time
- 2 minutes
The RCA GREAT Scholarships are open to applications for any one-year taught Master’s programme. Students from France, India, Italy and Pakistan are eligible to apply. We have one award of £10,000 available for each country for September 2025 entry. All awards will be paid as a tuition fee discount.
Please note that applicants for the GREAT Scholarship must hold a programme offer for an RCA one-year taught Master’s programme and be passport holders of France, India, Italy or Pakistan, paying Overseas fees.
Last year we awarded three students GREAT Scholarships: Aaroolya Rajesh, from India, is studying Animation MA; Natnaree Jeeramaneemai, from Thailand, is studying Service Design MA; and Tanvi Sankhe, also from India, is studying Interior Design MA.
The GREAT Scholarships 2025 programme, launched by the British Council together with over 70 UK universities, supports postgraduate students from Bangladesh, China, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam to access world-class UK higher education opportunities.
For more information on the GREAT Scholarships 2025, please visit Study UK.
How to apply
You must apply for and receive an offer to study on a full-time, one-year taught Master’s programme before you can complete a scholarship application. Search for programmes and find out how to apply.
Once you have a programme offer and you are sure that you meet the eligibility criteria, please complete this form to register your interest in making an application for a GREAT Scholarship.
All Round 1 and 2 offer holders will be invited to complete a general RCA scholarship application in spring 2025. This will ask for more information about you, your circumstances and your goals for the future. Make sure you have enough time to prepare strong answers. We will assess your responses and academic merit when making scholarship decisions.
Those with Round 3 offers by 30 April will also be invited to apply for a GREAT Scholarship if you register your interest via the form above. Please note that other RCA scholarships may no longer be available: we therefore encourage you to apply for your programme of choice as early as possible.
GREAT Scholarships may be combined with external funding as long as this does not cover 100% of your tuition fees.
GREAT Scholarships may be combined with other RCA scholarships. You do not need to apply directly for individual RCA awards; instead, your scholarship application will be marked against the criteria for all the scholarships that are available.
Successful candidates will be required to represent the RCA and the British Council as an ambassador for the GREAT scheme.
For more information, please contact the Scholarships team at [email protected]
